Food Kinetically Engineered to Stir the Soul

Most of us don’t realize Buddha’s Delight, that predictable vegetarian entree at every Chinese restaurant and takeout joint, was created more than 1,000 years ago in Chinese monasteries as edible transcendence.

Milk

We may mindlessly pour milk into morning coffee but milk is a miracle venerated by devout Hindus. The energy of a yellow sun soaked up by green grass gets absorbed by a grazing brown cow that pours out pure white protein. This magical transference of heavenly sunshine to the inside of our earthly bodies is transubstantiation in real life. Milk, our direct source of solar power, is thus a holy gift. And because the seemingly lowly cow presents this transcendent offering to us, it is sacred.